Diary December 10, 1917

12-1917, Diary WWI, War Diary, Year 1917 / 1 minute of reading

MAS torpedo boat of the type 'Grillo' — Italian MAS torpedo boat of the type ‘Grillo’ from the year 1917.

World War One Diary for Monday, December 10, 1917:

Sea War

Adriatic: 2 Italian MAS boats penetrate Trieste, MAS9 (Lieutenant Rizzo) sinks Austrian battleship Wien, worst Austrian warship loss so far.
North Sea: Royal Navy Air Service seaplanes bomb Bruges docks and airfields near Ghent.

Western Front

Belgium: Petain visits King Albert, ‘deplores the inefficiency of the British Command. The troops are excellent but they have been clumsily used. The Americans lack discipline and experience’.
Cambrai: British capture post east of Boursies (on Bapaume-Cambrai road).
Verdun: Unsuccessful German attack on Chaume Wood (and on December 15).

Eastern Front

Russia: Lenin drafts outline peace programme for negotiations.
Ukraine: Red railway detachments defeat Kornilov north of Kharkov and near Belgorod on December 13.

Southern Fronts

Salonika: Clemenceau recalls Sarrail who leaves on December 22.

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My name is Norman 'Kretaner' and since my childhood I am interested in history and strategy games. Later, I have learned programming and the development of computer games, and finally with the Internet, also web design. I'm in the fortunate position to combine all my interests with my work and to live on a place of my choice, on Crete. All information, figures, specifications and statistics used here had been compiled from a variety of sources and the large, over decades collected, library of the author about military history, WW2 and weapons.